u/Woum

Lmao what, top 30 sells on Steam, top streams and all, you did it haha

Congrats it worked for you

Yeah, it feels dangerous to use that name, but the riskier thing I guess is a letter asking to change the name and you obey

Thanks for taking the time to write all of that, it was interesting to read!

I wonder how you avoid making it feel too forced as a gamer and kinda "found" if you design them specifically?

Tho my experience with Monster Train was basically to find the best duo iirc

It's been a while, so I'm not sure how the game handles that, but that's how I remember it

How do you manage the RNG with that?

You can't choose what upgrade you'll have I suppose? So how early on do you prepare for that upgrade that, I guess, changes how useful some of the stuff you bought early on?

Yeah my first list was like "freeze character" than "poison character" then "fire character".

A really bad idea in the end if the difference is jsute that haha

Yeah that's exactly the problem, you don't build exactly at the same place, but with the exact same idea to do the exact same thing (but the core loop is still fun, so that's something haha)

Funny enough, I changed some towers between the characters, but it really wasn't enough, the towers being kinda the samey, you just use them in a similar way (not exactly the same way, but the identity was not strong enough)

Funny enough, I like that when I play a rogue, but actually creating the condition to make that happen in a meaningful way is weirder that I thought!

I like the "rule bending" idea a lot

Ah, I didn't play Wildfrost yet!

And now that you say that, in my game status effects may be underused, yeah, thanks

There's a limit in years and I take by everything if I want or we can continue if they're still helping with sales

Basically they may help me sell my game even years after the game is out depending of what they do

I had a playtest + announcement of the page

Having a good publisher helps yeah, just, there's tons of not so good ones :(

Thanks!

Weird, there's plenty https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dreadhaven

I was the lucky one who got contacted by them!

So I can't help you on that side, I didn't even have a pitch deck, I just had my game and they tryed it, liked it, we discussed and then signed

I won't disclose the real deal, but they take a huge amount before the recoup and way less after

Hi!

Thanks a lot for the message! I don't have much to say, but it really fills my heart each time I read a comment like this

Hello! I'm the dev of DreadHaven! Thanks for suggesting my game!

For anyone interested in learning more about what's behind DreadHaven:

• The project started as "They Are Billions but turn-based", because I'm a heavy pause abuser when playing that game haha.
• I also wanted to make it simpler, so I dropped units and tried to keep the number of resources to a minimum.
• It was heavily inspired by games like Nordhold and Against the Storm (as well as a lot of tower defense games I've played).
• I've been working on it for a year now, and the demo has been out for a month. The reception has been really good so far!

I'm so happy with how many people took the time to give me feedback over the past month. It helped me fix a lot of QoL issues and get the game ready for Next Fest!

About the free licenses: there are bots that automatically adds games to your account, iirc, you can use steamdb to add everything free to your account?

I never used any of these services

I guess we all lurk around the same places haha